I was so thrilled by the response to the Team Competition! The idea has been refined slightly, so let me explain a few changes and we’re ready to begin!
First of all, there were some concerns that jumping right in tracking all of those categories might be a bit much. So we’re going to take it one step at a time! This week, points will be earned for exercise and weight loss. So cast your mind back to Monday and count how many days you’ve exercised. If you haven’t 
, then you still have four days to get a move on! For our purposes, a week starts on Monday and runs through Sunday. Come Monday, you will be telling your team leader how many days you were moving and a’groovin, and they will relay that info to me.
The next week we will add the water category, then finally, the Scripture Memory category. That doesn’t mean you should wait to do all of these things. It just means you have time to get used to tracking everything. Oh, and to accomodate my capricious nature, there will be bonus point opportunities on the blog whenever I, dictator-for-life, feel like doing them! These opportunities will come in the form of various challenges, questions, and other silliness. For example, I might ask a question and award points to whomever answers, or ask for pictures, or just see who knows the best joke!! I like to keep you on your toes, y’know! 
Next change: At first I was simply going to do Total Points per team. The problem with that is that I have to keep the teams even or it’s not fair, which would potentially mean turning away a participant until we had a group of four ready to join. So instead, I’ll be going with Average Points for each team. (dividing total points by team member, dont’cha know) Pregnant team members will count in all categories except weight loss. Don’t worry. I’m very good at math and I’ve got it all figgered out. 
Finally, I realized yesterday what prize I can offer to the winning team! The time period for this phase of the contest is from yesterday to December 31st. The team with the best average points per team member overall will win free handmade necklaces, designed especially for this competition, from me. (If you’ve never seen my work, go to my personal site and look in the Crafting archive.)
So without further ado, here are the teams! New participants will be added as they come along. The person in bold is my pick for team leader - if there are any objections, work it out with your team and let me know who the leader is! Each team needs to come up with a fun name and email that to me ASAP. I will send out an email shortly with the email addresses for each team.
Blair, Carrie, Jana , Anita, Anne
Blest, Kat, Leigh Ann, Angie, Jenna
Tami, Debs, Maria, Laura, Stephanie
Mandi, Kimberly, Tracy, Leann, Lorri
And They’re Off!
Alright Teamies - You gals can email me at blairlaneATatih.com (obviously change the AT to @). Get in touch soon and we’ll get our team established ASAP!
Comment by Blair — November 2, 2006 @ 7:23 am
Let’s go!!!! I’m pumped! I’ll email everyone once addies are sent. Are you ready ladies?!!
Comment by Tami — November 2, 2006 @ 7:35 am
Blest just sent out the team list….my teammates should already have a message from me (if you don’t, check your spam folder).
Comment by Blair — November 2, 2006 @ 8:00 am
WAYCOOL!!!
Comment by Leann — November 2, 2006 @ 8:10 am
Yay! Hi Tami, Maria, Laura and Stephanie
This is gonna be sooooooo fun.
Comment by Debs — November 2, 2006 @ 9:13 am
Hi Everyone ~
I’m new and a friend of Blair’s. This sounds really exciting and I need desperately to lose some weight. Would love to join you and cheer you all on if that’s okay???
~ Allie
Comment by Allie — November 2, 2006 @ 12:02 pm
Yippeee - so glad you jumped in Allie!!! I’m excited to have ya with us girl!
Comment by Blair — November 2, 2006 @ 1:45 pm
I second that! Welcome Allie! I’ll put ya on Blair’s team so you’ll feel right at home!
Comment by blestwithsons — November 2, 2006 @ 1:51 pm
Hi Allie, good to ‘meet’ you. Hope to here more from you sometime soon
Comment by Debs — November 2, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
That was clearly meant to be ‘hear’ not ‘here’.
Must go to bed…
Comment by Debs — November 2, 2006 @ 2:12 pm
Howdy Allie!
Comment by Tami — November 2, 2006 @ 2:17 pm
Thanks so much for the warm welcome. Im very excited to get to know all of you
~ Allie
Comment by Allie — November 2, 2006 @ 2:31 pm